In soccer terms, the year 2019 will be about the women’s World Cup, a new-look USMNT, continental tournaments in North America, South America and Africa, and the usual attention magnets in the UEFA Champions League and the Premier League. Here are the trends and defining people that we see grabbing the headlines in the year ahead.
The U.S. centerforward is already the most popular player in American soccer, but even though she won the World Cup in 2015, Morgan scored just one goal in that tournament. Morgan had 18 goals in 19 games in 2018 and will likely be a force at France 2019.